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The February 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose short stature and portly girth earned him the affectionate nickname of “Schwämmerl" (Little Mushroom) – Franz Schubert.

The January 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features Rimsky-Korsakov’s work based on Scheherazade’s stories from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

The September 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a virtuosic piano concerto and three symphonies from the apex of the Romantic period of music.

The August 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a famous romantic piano concerto, religious and secular music from the Baroque period, and three works from the “Father of the Symphony.”

The June 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a work that brought Edward Elgar international fame and the last three symphonies of Antonín Dvorák.